sit out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
verb
To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
verb
To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
noun
Alternative form of sitout.
noun
Alternative form of sit-out.
Example Sentences
- "I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out."
- "I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit it out."
- "A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]"
- "He thinks he can sit it out and still take a slice?"
- "England manager Roy Hodgson instantly restored Rooney after a two-match suspension in place of Andy Carroll with orders to make a belated mark on the campaign after sitting out the draw against France and victory against Sweden."
- "During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities."